Our Favorite Video Daze

With the first of the Homebase Video Days coming up Friday, January 25th, I thought it would be fun to take a little trip down memory lane with some of the people who I’ve skated with through various eras since I started. These nine skateboarders were kind enough to answer this question for me: What is one of your favorite video parts of all time, and why?

“I liked it a lot because its my style of skating and he was mad young when he made that part. I used to watch that part everyday before I would skate when I was younger. He’s why I like hard flips so much and learned them.”

“The Pulp song is amazing and his mixture of tech skating on raw spots is amazing and very inspiring growing up on the east coast.”

Tyler ZoskySkateboarder, A Scumbag among Scumbags (in the best way, of course): Andrew Reynolds “Baker 3″

“Baker 3 came out when I was 13, which was around the time I started truly getting into skating. While I wouldn’t consider this my absolute favorite part of all time, it’s by far the best part that features the type of skating that involves hucking yourself down huge gaps. This part in particular stuck out to me for a few reasons. One is that the boss absolutely shuts it down, doing just about damn near every flip trick in the book. I also really like the huge middle portion where every clip is filmed at night. Definitely a modern classic from one of my favorite videos ever.”

“It was a video by Vern Laird that came out in like 97 i think. It was the first video I ever bought and Tim was the first skater that I saw in person that really just blew me away. He was always doing the tricks I wanted to learn pretty much every try. Dope style and east coast to the fullest.”

“I would have to say Jason Lee “Video Daze” or Ron Chapman “Rubbish Heap.” After years of seeing people skating vert or bowl transitions in videos it was awesome to see guys doing lots of flat ground lines and bench/ledge lip tricks for their entire parts. That’s all I ever did skating in Easton.”

There you have it, that’s our list. If we missed any of your favorites, please feel free to leave a link in the comments section below. You may be wondering why I didn’t add anything myself, but I just didn’t think you would haveenoughtimeforallofthat. Don’t forget to stop by Homebase at 8 pm this Friday to check out “Sabotage 3″ and who knows, maybe discover your next favorite video part.